~ steppe, and affording means for others. to. follow it. 
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an extensive Botanical Garden, and is now building a range 
of plant-houses. As the commencement of a Museum, and 
that a good one, they have purchased the herbarium of the 
late Professor Besser, rich in plants of Volhynia, Podolia, and 
Little-Russia especially, and next to them in Russian and in 
European plants, but containing also a considerable number 
of exotic plants obtained by Besser by means of an active 
correspondence. This herbarium is now being arranged in 
cabinets well adapted for the purpose, but upon paper, to my 
mind, of far too large a size. Professor Trautvetter himself 
has a private herbarium, but which chiefly consists of Little 
Russian, and especially Kieff plants; and he is now engaged 
in finishing a Flora of the Government of Kieff. He has also 
published a great number of short papers in the Moscow and: 
Petersburgh Bulletins on isolated botanical subjects, is now 
preparing for publication the plants of Meddendorp’s expedi-. 
tion to Arctic Russia, and is continuing his Icones Flore 
Rossicæ, a small quarto work, with very good outline pee 
of Russian plants. | 
Charkoff is another University town, between Moscow Be. 
Odessa, lying on the direct road, which we left for the 
purpose of seeing Kieff and Professor Trautvetter. The 
Professor of Botany for Charkoff is Mr. Tchernaieff, who, 
I am told, has herborized much in the neighbourhood of — 
Charkoff; but is now more engaged with cryptogamic 
plants, especially Fungi. I regret not — met with 
him. 
At Odessa, a lourd town of city tusärid inhabi- — 
tants, although there is a large College, the Richelieu Lyceum, — — 
which is aient an university, a Professor of Botany, and a — 
so-called Botanic Garden of two hundred English: acres, yet 
= there is neither botanical library nor. collections. 
Botanical Garden i is, in fact, a nursery made on the ste; 
the purpose of at once setting the example of pla 
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